As If Programmers Needed Another Reason to Think They Are God.... 2

Posted by Christopher Smith Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:18:00 GMT

This is what happens when a programmer starts to dabble in biology. Keep this in mind the next time you meet someone with a bioinformatics background. Even if they aren’t dangerous, they probably think they are, and that’s reason enough to give them a wide birth.

I’m pretty sure one day we’re going to really understand DNA/RNA/etc., and then we’ll find a segment that translates to:

// Worst hack ever!
// This doesn't actually make a rational decision, but instead just does what_I_want_to_do
// without even looking at relevant_factors.
// Returns a rationalization for what_I_want_to_do.

struct rationalization
make_decision(struct decision what_I_want_to_do, struct factors* relevant_factors)